Indian Ocean
About Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering 70,560,000 km2 (27,240,000 sq mi) or approximately 20% of the water area of Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by the Southern Ocean or Antarctica, depending on the definition in use. The Indian Ocean has large marginal or regional seas, including the Andaman Sea, the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, and the Laccadive Sea.
On the show — 9 mentions total
The place which has got the lowest gravity is just south of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean.
from 264: No Such Thing As Bikes In Space, 2019-04-12 at 00:28:10 · read transcript
Other times Indian Ocean came up
She could talk to other people in some ways. She was quite spry at the end. She died in 2010. She was in her mid-80s, I think. When the Indian Ocean tsunami came in 2004, was it, I think? Yes. She was 79 years old and she had to climb up a tree to escape it. Yeah. Maybe she asked the birds to lift her up into the branches of the tree.
427: No Such Thing As A Magnetic Skateboard, 2022-05-20 · listen
She could talk to other people in some ways. She was quite spry. She died in 2010. Yeah. She was in a mid-80s, I think. When the Indian Ocean tsunami came in 2004, was it, I think? Yes. She was 79 years old, and she had to climb up a tree to escape it. Yeah. Did she? Maybe she asked the birds to lift her up into the branches of the tree.
No Such Thing As A Magnetic Skateboard, 2022-05-20 · listen
This story of the submarine going around the world has taught me this. That four days after they were thought to be a sea monster in the Philippines, they were going in the Lombok Strait and then they were making their way into the Indian Ocean. Then out of nowhere, they plunged from periscope depth height to 125 feet in 40 seconds because the density of the saltwater is different in the Indian Ocean than it is to the Lombok Strait that they were coming through.
580: No Such Thing As Bin Day On A Nuclear Submarine, 2025-04-24 · listen
They're both shorter than the Brazil, French Guiana border. That's a really great fact. It's kind of a little bit. It comes up in quizzes a fair bit, that one. I once went to Reunion, which is an island in the Pacific or the South Atlantic or somewhere. No, it's in the Indian Ocean. Oh my God. Jesus Christ. Oh yeah, it's isn't it? It's just in the East of Africa.
No Such Thing As Quantum Baseball, 2025-08-28 · listen
Coordinates: -20.0000, 80.0000